Knight v R

• Jurisdiction: Cayman Islands
• Judge: (Levers, J.)
• Judgment Date: 13 December 2005
• Date: 13 December 2005
• Court: Grand Court (Cayman Islands)

Grand Court

(Levers, J.)

KNIGHT

and

R.

Attorneys: Broadhurst Barristers for the appellant; Government Legal Dept.

Criminal Law-drugs-mode of trial

The offence of ‘being concerned in the importation’ of a controlled drug that is a hard drug is an ‘offence of . . . importing’ within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Law (2000 Revision), s.60(1) and is therefore a Category B offence (under the Criminal Procedure Code (1995 Revision), s.5) triable either upon indictment or summarily with the consent of the prosecution and the accused. The addition of the words ‘being concerned in’ to a substantive charge of importation does not reduce its categorization (Att. Gen. v. Donalds, 1997 CILR 494, not followed).